Leila Guerriero said that she wrote chronicles because it was the best way to understand and understand the world.

Leila Guerriero does not write chronicles to change the world, however, for her it's the best way to understand it and understand each other. This was stated during the opening conversation of the UNAM Book and Rosa Festival with the Mexican writer Rosa Beltrán.

The author of the books "The Suicides of the End of the World", "Opus Gelber, Portrait of a Pianist" and "Zone of Works", among others, shared experiences about his work process, his obsession with detail and his opinion of the clashes media with the power domes.

As a fiction writer, Guerriero seeks to know what to write and to know clearly what to say. "The text does not have to be an exaltation of my own ego, it can not be a jubilation of form anything else. What to jubilate, when it is empty, does a lot of harm to the chronicle"explained to an enthusiastic and attentive audience.

He emphasizes the fact that even if they are columns, chronicles or whole books, Guerriero Always keep in mind to fill in your content stories. However, this goal It has nothing to do with pretending to want to change the world.

You know a journalist, but he has no hope that his texts will produce a better world. Despite this, he does them because he thinks the journalists have the social responsibility to make visible what happens and stays hidden.

It does not work, he says, write about marginal or obscure topics, you can also talk about surprising stories that tell of dreams of whole people or communities and that, even if nothing in the world changes, she says it because for her aesthetics becomes part of their ethic.

In this sense, the choice of its themes It depends on what you want to say about yourself. Leila is not a journalist looking for topics under the tiles, your mind works like a radar and even a sentence with a taxi driver in Chile can conceive an idea.

In addition, he has an iron will to go against the commonplace because, although it sounds like a paradox, insists on questioning these people who have already been very consulted by the press and so try to understand what is in their heads and how they are constructed.

Asking what is behind each individual is as important as watching their details. According to Guerriero, the chronicle is the queen of detail and context. That's why you can not afford to see through the character's keyhole, as this will not show you how He has arrived there or how that comes into play with the rest of the things that he does in his life.

You have to look at the whole subject. For this, the reporter uses the metaphor of the socks of a pianist, who represents the details that allow to see the contradictions, the kindness and the baseness characters.

To the victims, for example, they should not be presented angelic, without flaws"It's almost like revictimizing them," complains Guerriero, "they should all be shown its edges and its contradictions, it does not make them less victims. "The same goes for the authors, who are presented as monsters and who do not see the details.

Regarding the current situation of journalism, the journalist is afraid to see how journalists they went from heroes to scoundrels, it's a parable that gives him an impression. However, he is aware that the press, as a real enemy of populist governments It's a great strategy.

The problem for Guerriero is that many media "have reacted by not doing the good and old journalism of a life that is to be verified, but put biased headlines, confuse information with editorials and publish long notes where only one voice is read on several possible ".

He also criticizes the fact that they started dancing "the conga of clicks" when the the work of the media is to organize news that is worth taking a look at and not based on what interests readers, because "they are interested in videos of cats, they give them videos of cats and that gives them a chance at the foot".

For Leila Guerriero, "the best journalism is the one that, even with technological mechanisms, does the checking and escapes the false news like the plague"